How to put a password on peerflix server using basic auth

How to put a password on peerflix server using basic-auth

This is a guide for putting a password on peerflix-server without using squit or Nginx.

Tested on Ubuntu 16.04

requirements

You need to install basic-auth and nano

npm install basic-auth

apt-get -y install nano

Close peerflix-server if it is running

• if you have started peerflix-server with the command peerflix-server then click Ctrl + C

or

• if you are running peerflix-server with forever forever stop /usr/bin/peerflix-server

Adding Password

Open the file index.js with nano

nano /usr/lib/node_modules/peerflix-server/server/index.js

and replace

16. api.use(function (req, res, next) {
17. res.header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin', '*');
18. res.header('Access-Control-Allow-Methods', 'OPTIONS, POST, GET, PUT, DELETE');
19. res.header('Access-Control-Allow-Headers', 'Origin, X-Requested-With, Content-Type, Accept');

to

16. var basicAuth = require('basic-auth');
17. var dvnuser = 'your_user';
18. var dvnpass = 'your_pass';
19. api.use(function (req, res, next) {
20. function unauthorized(res) {
21. res.set('WWW-Authenticate', 'Basic realm=Authorization Required');
22. eturn res.send(401);
23. };
24. var user = basicAuth(req);
25. if (!user || !user.name || !user.pass) {
26. return unauthorized(res);
27. };
28. if (user.name === dvnuser && user.pass === dvnpass) {
29. res.header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin', '*');
30. res.header('Access-Control-Allow-Methods', 'OPTIONS, POST, GET, PUT, DELETE');
31. res.header('Access-Control-Allow-Headers', 'Origin, X-Requested-With, Content-Type, Accept');
32. return next();
33. } else {
34. return unauthorized(res);
35. };

P.S.: replace your_ user and your_pass with your desired username and password

Click Ctrl + X then click two times enter to exit

Restarting peerflix-server

• You can start peerflix-server normally with peerflix-server command

or

• You can start peerflix-server using forever forever start $(which peerflix-server)